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STAMP ANNOUNCEMENT 05-05

Love Bouquet Special Stamp

The Postal ServiceTM will issue a 37-cent Love Bouquet special stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) convertible booklet of 20 stamps (Item 673600), on February 18, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. The stamp designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, goes on sale nationwide February 19, 2005.

For 2005, the Postal Service brings back a perennial favorite, the Love Series. Artist Vivienne Flesher of San Francisco, California, used chalk pastels to create a design on a cheery yellow-gold background showing a hand offering a bouquet of colorful spring flowers.

How to Order First Day of Issue Postmark

Customers have 30 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post OfficeTM, by telephone at 800-STAMP-24, and at the Postal Store Web site at www.usps.com/shop. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice,

Issue:	Love Bouquet
Item Number:	673600
Denomination & Type of Issue:	37-cent Special
Format:	Convertible booklet of 20 (1 design)
Series:	Love
Issue Date & City:	February 18, Atlanta, GA 30304
Designer:	Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Engraver:	Southern Graphics Systems
Art Director:	Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Typographer:	Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Artist:	Vivienne Flesher, San Francisco, CA
Modeler:	Avery Dennison, SPD
Manufacturing Process:	Gravure
Printer:	Avery Dennison (AVR)
Printed at:	AVR, Clinton, SC
Press Type:	Dia Nippon Kiko (DNK)
Stamps per Booklet:	20
Print Quantity:	1.5 billion stamps
Paper Type:	Prephosphored, Type II
Adhesive Type:	Pressure-sensitive
Processed at:	AVR, Clinton, SC
Colors:	Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Black
Stamp Orientation:	Vertical
Image Area (w x h):	0.770 x 1.050 in./19.558 x 26.67 mm
Overall Size (w x h):	0.910 x 1.190 in./23.114 x 30.226 mm
Booklet Size (w x h):	4.55 x 5.00 in./115.57 x 127.0 mm
Plate Size:	420 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers:	"V" followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings:	"© 2004 USPS" • Plate numbers • "Peel here to fold"
Catalog Item Number(s):	673640 Love Bouquet (Flowers) PSA Convertible Book of 20 - $7.40 673661 First Day Cover - $0.75 673665 Digital Color Postmark Cover - $1.50 673699 Cancellation Keepsake (1 BK w/ Digital Color Postmark Single) - $8.90

address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:

LOVE BOUQUET SPECIAL STAMP
ATLANTA POST OFFICE
POSTMASTER
3900 CROWN ROAD RM 2400
ATLANTA GA 30304-9998

After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark. All orders must be postmarked by March 17, 2004.

Stamp Fulfillment Services also offers first day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first day of issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog. Customers may request a free catalog by telephoning 800-STAMP-24 or writing to:

INFORMATION FULFILLMENT
DEPT 6270
US POSTAL SERVICE
PO BOX 219014
KANSAS CITY MO 64121-9014

First day covers remain on sale for at least 1 year after the stamp's issuance.

Philatelic Products

There are no philatelic products for these stamps issue.

Distribution: $7.40 Love Bouquet, PSA Convertible Booklet of 20, Item 673600

Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive two automatic distributions of the $7.40 Love Bouquet booklet of 20. Both waves are each approximately one-half the standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet. Wave 1 distribution began November 9 and completed December 8, 2004. Wave 2 distribution begins January 31 and completes March 9, 2005. Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,000 booklets).

Initial Supply to Post Offices

SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices for one-half of their standard automatic booklet distribution quantity using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute booklets to Post Offices before February 14, 2005.

Philatelic Requirement

SDOs will not receive a separate quantity Item 673600 for their authorized philatelic centers. Philatelic centers must be supplied their required quantities from the initial automatic distribution made to stamp distribution offices.

Additional Supply

Post Offices requiring additional booklets must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional booklets must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17.

For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the Chicago, Memphis, and New York APDs will each receive 800,000 additional booklets; the San Francisco APD will receive 640,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 440,000 additional booklets. For fulfilling supplemental orders from APDs, the Kansas City Stamp Services Center will receive 4,000,000 additional booklets.

Supplemental quantities will not ship until the Wave 2 distribution directed to SDOs has been completed, but no later than March 9, 2005.

Sales Policy

All Post Offices must acquire and maintain a supply of each new special stamp issue as long as customer demand exists, until inventory is depleted, or until the issue is officially withdrawn from sale. If supplies run low, Post Offices must reorder additional quantities using their normal ordering procedures.

— Stamp Services,
Government Relations, 1-20-05

NEW INAUGURAL COLLECTIBLE ON SALE TODAY

National Roll-Out January 20, 2005, for Inaugural Keepsake Set

The Inaugural Keepsake Set includes a color cancellation on an illustrated envelope honoring the 2005 inauguration of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. The illustrated envelope features official photographs of President Bush and Vice President Cheney framed in a reproduction of an historic (1908) presidential campaign postcard image, one of many campaign memorabilia depicted in the accompanying Old Glory Prestige Booklet. This 28-page, four-color booklet includes twenty 37-cent stamps.

The Inaugural Keepsake Set goes on sale January 20, 2005, at all Postal Stores, as well as through 800-STAMP-24 (800-782-6724), USA Philatelic Catalog, and the Postal Store online at www.usps.com/shop.

Retail outlets not stocking the item or needing a sell sheet can print a four-color sell sheet by going to the following URL: http://blue.usps.gov/corporate/sellsheets/ inauguralsellsheet.pdf.

Stamp distribution offices can place reorders with Stamp Fulfillment Services via e-mail to Chong Riley (chong.s. riley@usps.gov).

Set price: $11.95

Item numbers:

• Postal Stores: 980400

• Field (very limited distribution): 980401

• Catalog, online, sell sheet, and phone: 882089

— Stamp Services,
Government Relations, 1-20-05

Pictorial Postmarks Announcement

As a community service, the Postal ServiceTM offers pictorial postmarks to commemorate local events celebrated in communities throughout the nation. A list of events for which pictorial postmarks are authorized appears below. If available, the sponsor of the pictorial postmark appears in italics under the date. Also provided, as space permits, are illustrations of those postmarks that were reproducible and available at press time.

People attending these local events may obtain the postmark in person at the temporary Post OfficeTM station established there. Those who cannot attend the event, but who wish to obtain the postmark, may submit a mail order request. Pictorial postmarks are available only for the dates indicated, and requests must be postmarked no later than 30 days following the requested pictorial postmark date.

All requests must include a stamped envelope or postcard bearing at least the minimum First-Class Mail® postage. Items submitted for postmark may not include postage issued after the date of the requested postmark. Such items will be returned unserviced.

Customers wishing to obtain a postmark should affix stamps to any envelope or postcard of their choice, address the envelope or postcard to themselves or others,insert a card of postcard thickness in envelopes for sturdiness, and tuck in the flap. Place the envelope or postcard in a larger envelope and address it to: PICTORIAL POSTMARKS, followed by the NAME OF THE STATION,ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP+4® CODE, exactly as listed below (using all capitals and no punctuation, except thehyphen in the ZIP+4 code).

Customers can also send stamped envelopes and postcards without addresses for postmark, as long as they supply a larger envelope with adequate postage and their return address. After applying the pictorial postmark, the Postal Service returns the items (with or without addresses) under addressed protective cover.

January 1, 2005 Postal Service IMAGINATION STATION POSTMASTER 245 WASHINGTON ST SARATOGA SPRINGS NY 12866-9998

January 14, 2005 NEW YEARS STATION POSTMASTER 824 MANATEE AVE WEST BRADENTON FL 34206-9998

January 14, 2005 Postal Service MLK STATION POSTMASTER 4108 SW GREEN OAKS BLVD ARLINGTON TX 76017-9998

January 15-16/22-23, 2005 Chamber of Commerce TIP UP TOWN STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 9998 HOUSTON LAKE MI 48629-9998

January 21-23, 2005 STANS MULLET FESTIVAL STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 9998 GOODLAND FL 34140-9998

January 22, 2005 Postal Service ZIP MEETS DATE STATION POSTMASTER 50001 COLONIE CENTER MALL ALBANY NY 12205-9998

January 22-23, 2005 MANATEE STATION POSTMASTER 260 N INDUSTRIAL DR PO BOX 9998 ORANGE CITY FL 32763-9998

January 29, 2005 Chinese American Friendship Association of Maine CHINESE NEW YEAR STATION POSTMASTER 125 FOREST AVE PORTLAND ME 04101-9998

January 31, 2005 OHARA ANNIVERSARY STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 9998 POTTSVILLE PA 17901-9998

January 31, 2005 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 9998 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK CA 95389-9998

February 1, 2005 Cub Scouts STILL HAVING FUN STATION POSTMASTER 201 HIGH ST NE WARREN OH 44482-9998

February 1, 2005 Postal Service NEW FACILITY GRAND OPENING STATION POSTMASTER 141 N MAIN ST TRENT TX 79561-9998

February 1-28, 2005 Quivira Council Boy Scouts 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF CUB SCOUTING STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 48166 WICHITA KS 66783-9998

February 2, 2005 Postal Service BACK TO DOLAND STATION POSTMASTER PO BOX 9998 DOLAND SD 57436-9998

— Stamp Services, Government Relations, 1-20-05